not true. if you're going to continue working even one day past the date on your arc, you need an amended contract reflecting your new end date and you'll have to pay a fee - either 30 or 60 000 won, can't recall which. the free departure extension, that you need a plane ticket to get, is good for your extra stay, but not for working under any circumstances.

If you sign a new contract with the same school do you need to get a new visa? Not a renewal, just a new contract with a school that you haven't started to work for yet. Specifically, if you sign a contract with a school and get a visa, and then want to sign a new contract with an earlier start date, can you use the same visa?

For reasons I can't decipher my school has decided to end the contract early, but fortunately are willing to give me a good reference, letter of release, and visa transfer. The problem is at least half the recruiters I'm going through have said that my visa cannot be transferred because I haven't worked six months. The other recruiters say that all I need is a letter of release.

TJ said, "Lee Bok-nam is the Director of the Border Control Division, of the Korean Immigration Service;" how do you know that? What are your sources? Be specific. Then, TJ said someone was "crossing legal borders?" What borders? Where did you get your law degree?

First off, I didn't say "Lee Bok-nam is the Director of the Border Control Division, of the Korean Immigration Service." I quoted that line from the KT and provided a link to the original article.

Secondly, my original quote was

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Careful, you are crossing some legal lines you don't want to cross in Korea.

and it was in reference to another poster insinuating that a Korean politician was engaged in illegal activities. The line I was referring to was the slander defamation line, that you don't want to cross in Korea.

You by the way are very close to that line, sir and I would ask you kindly to take a step back from it.

The difference is you attempt to attack the poster, I on the other hand address the content or lack there in of the post. Huge difference, that I'm not sure you can appreciate. But I do hope that you eventually do.

Just like old times at AFEK where you have to put your two cents in about anything you haven't studied. Yeah, you said The Korea Times didn't say who their source was about hagwons closing--since you never took journalism, I'll teach you--newspapers don't HAVE to give their sources anyomore---this isn't the '80s. Read some law books or something, you are WAY behind the times.

Sleepy in Seoul wrote:
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As an official from the Ministry of Justice responsible for visa issuance, I would like to express my view after reading a Feb. 12 Korea Times article, ``Testing Teachers for Drugs and AIDS,'' by Prof. Benjamin Wagner.

This is merely one Immigration official's opinion.

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Lee Bok-nam is director of the Border Control Division, the Korea Immigration Service

This is not just a desk jockey at your local immigration office.

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This is a copy of what you said--clearly, you said Lee Bok-nam is director of the Border Control Division, the Korea Immigration service--then you said: "This is no joke." For those of us who read English correctly (I don't know where you learned yours) it's case closed. It takes a man to admit he's wrong--are you man enough?